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How HP-UX Virtualization meets ever-changing workload & business requirements

cjdreher| April 5, 2012
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HP-UX has recently made significant enhancements to its virtualization offering thereby reinforcing our belief that  virtualization should focus first and foremost on the flexibility to meet ever-changing workload and business requirements. Not only does HP-UX virtualization increase server efficiency and enable consolidation, it also acts as a critical step toward centralizing services and IT resources on the path to cloud. With this in mind, let me tell you about the latest enhancements in the HP Virtualization Continuum for HP-UX.

 

In November 2011, HP introduced a number of dynamic enhancements for its high-end, mission-critical, Superdome 2 servers, greatly increasing server availability, efficiency and flexibility. Uptime of the Superdome 2 servers is increased by dynamically:

  • moving processor cores and reserve capacity between partitions
  • replacing failed processors
  • applying firmware upgrades.

Manual errors can now be reduced by automating these dynamic capabilities against pre-determined business policies through the use of HP-UX Global Workload Manager.

 

Fast forward to this past March (2012) and you’ll discover that HP-UX now offers customers additional server efficiency and flexibility capability by combining the best of vPars scalability and performance with Integrity VM flexibility and management, across all Integrity servers. This is done by converging the virtual partition and virtual machine offerings on HP Integrity servers into “HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6.1”. With this release, customers can also increase I/O efficiency of their virtualized servers. Shared I/O  enables more virtual partitions within a server,  and direct I/O (for networking)  improves I/O performance by meeting high bandwidth needs with dedicated network devices. Customers can also now access vast amounts of storage, up to 2,048 LUNs per vPar or VM.  In addition, to better meet business requirements, workloads can be balanced by: migrating vPars between servers, and easily transforming workloads between vPars and VMs.

 

At the same time, virtualization and infrastructure management, provided by HP Matrix OE 7.0 for HP-UX, has been enhanced to: workload balance between physical and virtual servers; increase scalability; and simplify management for large, diverse sets of cloud users in multi-tenancy environments.

 

These virtualization and infrastructure management enhancements demonstrate HP’s continued investment in HP-UX and HP Integrity servers – a key promise of Project Odyssey, within HP’s Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure. HP will continue to invest and add capabilities to the Integrity HP-UX platform, cascading innovations over time to mission-critical x86. This positions HP as the only vendor who offers enterprises a single converged platform for mission-critical workloads on UNIX and x86 platforms. Check out these and other new HP-UX enhancements here.

 

 

Written by: Laurie Robell, HP Partitioning & Virtualization specialist

Tags: HP Integrity| HP-UX| HP-UX operating environments| Mission-Critical computing| virtualization| View All (7)
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  • Kirk Bresniker is the Vice President/Chief Technologist for HP Business Critical Systems where he has technical responsibility for all things Mission Critical, including HP-UX, NonStop and scalable x86 platforms. He joined HP in 1989 after graduating from Santa Clara University and has been an HP Fellow since 2008.
  • I’m the worldwide marketing manager for HP NonStop. I’ll be blogging and tweeting out news as it relates to NonStop solutions – you can find me here and on twitter at @CarolynatHP
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  • I have worked with NonStop systems since 1982. I am a Master Technologist for HP and am part of the IT SWAT organization, the Cloud SWAT and work with HP Labs. I report into the Enterprise Solutions and Architecture organization.
  • Joe Androlowicz is a Technical Communications and Marketing manager in HP’s NonStop Product Division. Joe is a 25 year journeyman in information systems design, instructional technologies and multimedia development. He left Apple Computer for Tandem Computers to help launch G03 and hasn’t looked back yet. He previously managed the program management team for the NonStop Education and Training Center and drove the development and growth of the NonStop Certification programs.
  • As a recent college graduate I am new to the world of converged infrastructure, cloud and big data. I am very excited about the innovation HP can bring to the future of mission critical IT.
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  • Luke Oda is a member of the HP's BCS Marketing team. With a primary focus on marketing programs that support HP's BCS portfolio. His interests include all things mission-critical and the continuing innovation that HP demonstrates across the globe.
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